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Museum 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Kanazawa, Japan
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa attracted 1,570,000 visitors in its opening year of 2004, establishing it as one of the most visited art spaces in Japan within months of opening.
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Park Abel Tasman National Park New Zealand Abel Tasman National Park
New Zealand
The park was established in 1942 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Abel Tasman becoming the first European to sight New Zealand in 1642, exactly three centuries earlier.
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Park Abisko National Park Sweden Abisko National Park
Sweden
Abisko National Park lies within the aurora oval, a region circling the magnetic north pole where northern lights appear with exceptional frequency and clarity due to minimal light pollution and stable atmospheric conditions.
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City Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi accounts for about two-thirds of the roughly $503 billion economy of the United Arab Emirates, making it by far the wealthiest emirate in the federation.
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Airport Abu Dhabi International Airport Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi International Airport
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The airport's Midfield Terminal, which opened in 2023, features a distinctive X-shaped design inspired by traditional Emirati hospitality, with a central courtyard bringing natural light deep into the building's core.
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Monument Abu Simbel Temples Aswan, Egypt Abu Simbel Temples
Aswan, Egypt
The entire Abu Simbel complex was cut into blocks and reassembled on higher ground in 1968 to save it from being submerged by Lake Nasser after the Aswan Dam was built.
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Park Acadia National Park United States Acadia National Park
United States
Cadillac Mountain in Acadia is the first place in the continental United States to see sunrise from October through March, drawing thousands of early-morning visitors to its 1,530-foot summit each year.
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Airport Accra Kotoka International Airport Accra, Ghana Accra Kotoka International Airport
Accra, Ghana
The airport's first civilian terminal was completed in 1958 under President Kwame Nkrumah's post-independence development program, converting a former British Royal Air Force base into Ghana's international gateway, and was renamed Kotoka International Airport in 1969.
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Museum Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece Acropolis Museum
Athens, Greece
The Acropolis Museum exhibits more than 4,250 objects across 14,000 square meters, with floors built directly over an active archaeological excavation site that visitors can view through glass panels beneath their feet.
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Monument Acropolis of Athens & Parthenon Athens, Greece Acropolis of Athens & Parthenon
Athens, Greece
The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC under the direction of Pericles and remains the most recognizable monument of classical Greek civilization ever constructed.
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Airport Addis Ababa Bole International Airport Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Built at an elevation of 2,334 meters above sea level, this airport ranks among the highest major international airports in the world, requiring aircraft to account for the reduced air density affecting takeoff and landing performance.
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Airport Adelaide Airport Adelaide, Australia Adelaide Airport
Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide Airport's terminal features a striking wave-like roof designed to echo the nearby coastline, with laminated timber beams creating a distinctive undulating form that filters natural light across the departures hall.
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Airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport Madrid, Spain Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
Madrid, Spain
The airport's Terminal 4, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers, features a distinctive bamboo-lined roof with skylights that create natural wave patterns of light across the departures hall throughout the day.
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City Agra India Agra
India
The Taj Mahal required over 20,000 artisans and craftsmen working for 16 years to complete its construction, with materials transported from across Asia including white marble from Rajasthan.
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Park Akan-Mashu National Park Japan Akan-Mashu National Park
Japan
Akan Mashu National Park is the only place in Japan where marimo, spherical colonies of green algae, grow to appreciable size in their natural habitat.
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Park Al-Ahsa Oasis (UNESCO) Saudi Arabia Al-Ahsa Oasis (UNESCO)
Saudi Arabia
Al-Ahsa Oasis comprises four main cities and 22 villages, making it an unusually large and complex urban oasis rather than a single settlement surrounded by date palms.
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Country Albania Europe Albania
Europe
Perched on the Adriatic and Ionian coasts, this Balkan nation preserves Roman ruins, Byzantine churches and Ottoman architecture alongside Europe's last major wild river systems and a unique language unrelated to any neighboring tongue.
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Monument Alcázar of Segovia Segovia, Spain Alcázar of Segovia
Segovia, Spain
Royal administration books were transferred to the Alcázar in 1437, and over five centuries later a 1998 Royal Decree formally declared the fortress a National Archive.
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Airport Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport Algiers, Algeria Algiers Houari Boumediene Airport
Algiers, Algeria
Established in 1924 as Maison Blanche Airport after the area where it sits, the airport was renamed in 1980 to honor Houari Boumediene, Algeria's second president, who oversaw the nationalization of the country's oil and gas industry and used the revenues to fund major infrastructure across the country.
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Monument Alhambra Granada, Spain Alhambra
Granada, Spain
Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra, published in 1832, brought international attention to the site and sparked a romantic fascination with Moorish architecture across Europe and America.
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Airport Almaty International Airport Almaty, Kazakhstan Almaty International Airport
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Built at an elevation of 681 meters in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains, the airport's location requires pilots to navigate unique approach procedures through one of Central Asia's most dramatic alpine backdrops.
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Park Amazon National Park (Jaú National Park) Brazil Amazon National Park (Jaú National Park)
Brazil
Jaú National Park protects the entire drainage basin of the Jaú River, making it one of the few parks in the world to encompass a complete river system from source to mouth within its boundaries.
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Park Amboseli National Park Kenya Amboseli National Park
Kenya
Amboseli National Park sits at the core of an 8,000 square kilometer ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border, making the protected park itself less than five percent of the total range.
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Museum American Museum of Natural History New York City, United States American Museum of Natural History
New York City, United States
The American Museum of Natural History houses the 563-carat Star of India sapphire, one of the largest and most famous blue star sapphires in the world, which was stolen in 1964 and recovered two months later in a Miami bus locker..
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Airport Amman Queen Alia International Airport Amman, Jordan Amman Queen Alia International Airport
Amman, Jordan
The airport's distinctive terminal, designed by Norman Foster and opened in 2013, features a sweeping concrete shell roof inspired by Bedouin tents, creating a dramatic vaulted space that filters natural light across the departure hall.
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City Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam
Netherlands
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, founded in 1602, is considered the oldest modern securities market stock exchange in the world and introduced the first system for trading shares of a company.
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Airport Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Schiphol sits four meters below sea level on the site of a former lake called Haarlemmermeer, which was drained in the mid-19th century and later became one of Europe's first airports built entirely on reclaimed polder land.
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Monument Angkor Thom Siem Reap, Cambodia Angkor Thom
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Thom covers an area of 9 square kilometers, making it one of the largest pre-industrial cities ever constructed and substantially bigger than the walled cities of medieval Europe.
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Monument Angkor Wat Siem Reap, Cambodia Angkor Wat
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Angkor Wat breaks from Angkorian temple tradition by orienting its main entrance and galleries toward the west rather than the east, a design choice scholars believe relates to its association with Vishnu.
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City Antalya Türkiye Antalya
Türkiye
Antalya was founded in around 200 BC by King Attalus II of Pergamon, who named the city Attalia after himself before it became a major port on the Mediterranean coast.
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Airport Antalya Airport Antalya, Türkiye Antalya Airport
Antalya, Türkiye
The airport's main terminal features a distinctive wavy roof design inspired by the coastal landscape, with curved forms that echo the nearby Mediterranean shoreline and mountain silhouettes of the Taurus range.
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Landmark Antelope Canyon Arizona, United States Antelope Canyon
Arizona, United States
Antelope Canyon's narrow passageways were carved entirely by flash flood water rushing through the Navajo sandstone over thousands of years, creating smooth wave-like walls that reach heights of 120 feet.
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Landmark Arashiyama Bamboo Grove Kyoto, Japan Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Kyoto, Japan
The bamboo stalks in the grove belong to the moso bamboo species, which can grow up to one meter per day during peak growing season and produces a distinctive rustling sound when wind passes through the dense forest.
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Monument Arc de Triomphe Paris, France Arc de Triomphe
Paris, France
The Arc de Triomphe stands at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, where twelve grand avenues radiate outward in a star pattern designed to frame the monument from multiple perspectives across Paris.
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Park Arches National Park United States Arches National Park
United States
Arches National Park was originally designated a national monument in 1929 before being upgraded to full national park status on November 12, 1971, more than four decades later.
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Country Argentina South America Argentina
South America
The second-largest country in South America stretches from subtropical forests to the glaciers of Patagonia, home to tango music, gaucho traditions, and a culture shaped by waves of European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Country Armenia Asia Armenia
Asia
The first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion in 301 CE, this Caucasus country preserves thousands of ancient monasteries and churches across mountainous terrain, while maintaining a distinct alphabet created in 405 CE.
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Museum Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
The Art Gallery of New South Wales was known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales for 75 years between 1883 and 1958, despite being a state institution rather than a national one.
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Museum Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, United States Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
The Art Institute of Chicago holds a permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art, spanning 5,000 years of human creativity from ancient artifacts to contemporary installations.
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Park Asir National Park Saudi Arabia Asir National Park
Saudi Arabia
Asir National Park, established in 1981, protects populations of the critically endangered Arabian leopard in its mountainous terrain, one of the last strongholds for this rare subspecies in Saudi Arabia.
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Park Aspromonte National Park Italy Aspromonte National Park
Italy
Aspromonte National Park received UNESCO Global Geopark recognition on April 21, 2021, joining a selective network of territories with exceptional geological heritage.
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City Athens Greece Athens
Greece
Athens hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and then waited 108 years to host them again in 2004, the longest gap between hosting duties of any city.
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Airport Athens International Airport Athens, Greece Athens International Airport
Athens, Greece
Athens International Airport opened in 2001 on the site of the former Spata Air Base, replacing the overcrowded Hellinikon Airport and becoming Greece's first major infrastructure project for the 2004 Olympic Games.
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City Auckland New Zealand Auckland
New Zealand
Auckland sits on a narrow isthmus with harbors on two separate bodies of water, the Manukau Harbour opening to the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour opening to the Pacific Ocean.
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Airport Auckland Airport Auckland, New Zealand Auckland Airport
Auckland, New Zealand
Built on flat volcanic terrain in the Māngere district of south Auckland, the airport's construction in the 1960s required stone quarried from the nearby Ōtuataua volcanic cone, which was entirely removed during the process, leaving only a crater where a 64-meter volcanic hill once stood.
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Museum Auckland War Memorial Museum Auckland, New Zealand Auckland War Memorial Museum
Auckland, New Zealand
The museum building opened in 1929 and stands on Observatory Hill, which is formed from the remains of a dormant volcano that last erupted thousands of years ago.
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Monument Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Oświęcim, Poland Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
Oświęcim, Poland
Founded in 1947 through the initiative of survivors, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 as the only camp on the list, preserving over 150 original structures as one of the most important sites of historical memory in the world.
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Airport Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Austin, United States Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
Austin, United States
Built on the site of Bergstrom Air Force Base, which closed in 1993, the airport retains the original military runways that now serve commercial aviation, a rare example of direct military-to-civilian airfield conversion.
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